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Sunday Update: EMS
EMS: Emotional, Motivational, Spiritual Often we work on one thing, exercise for example, and disregard the rest. Or maybe you’re working on just your diet. For effective weight loss, we all know it’s got to be a combination of both. Thursday through Sunday (today, my birthday) I’ve been at the Misfit Conference. It’s in Fargo…
Read MoreFacebook for Small Business
Tonight I presented to members of the Sac City Iowa community on how to use Facebook for small business. Here’s the presentation! facebook 2014
Read MoreBusiness Books
There are a lot of business books out there. Some are great, some are good and some suck. This is a list that was submitted to me by Pete Campbell from www.traveloutthere.com I agree,this is a good list. Some of the books are really really good. He’s missing a few I can think of: Small…
Read MoreHERO UPDATE
PHASE TWO COMPLETE, MORE FUNDRAISING AND OPENING DATE PROJECTED Help Entertain and Restore Organization, HERO, announced today that $133,000 has been raised to Save the Webster Theater. Phase One needed $22,500 in order to purchase the building. Phase Two needed $80,000 to purchase the projector, video and sound equipment. The building is now owned by…
Read MoreSunday Update: Going Public
It’s been a rough week. Lots of meetings, plenty of opportunity to not eat right, stressful situations with loved ones and to cap it off, my IBS chose to flair up this week. Irritable Bowel Syndrome was diagnosed after I had every possible test known to man to find out why I had chronic, uncontrollable…
Read MoreSunday Update: Functional
Randy Andrews, with Lucky Shot Athletics, is a functional trainer. I work with him because he understands what I need, pushes me but doesn’t get me hurt. Here’s his description of functional training: When looking at the big picture of fitness, functional training is considered to be a relatively new way to train our bodies.…
Read MoreSunday Update: Filters
It’s come to me this week that I view people through a couple of filters. It’s subconscious, but still there. “Will she think I’m fat?” and “I’m fatter than him.” First of all, my logical brain knows those thoughts are crap. I don’t want to think like that. Its put a pale on every conversation…
Read MoreSunday Update: Wellness Journey
It’s been a busy week and it started with a trip to the emergency room for my mom. She’s got Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Congestive Heart Failure. We’ve been told there will be visits like this — a week or two in the hospital balancing out her heart, lungs and kidneys and the home…
Read MoreCulinary Tourism: Best Practices
A best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark. Wikipedia We’re listing a few best practices in this post and encourage you to work together to flush them out and see where you can go with them. Anything you…
Read MoreEnhancing the Visitor Experience
Many thanks to Rebecca LeHeup from OntarioCulinary.com for getting the conversation started! Why not think about having culinary tourism where you live? Welcome the visitor: Have a welcoming retail space. Is it clean? Is the doorway clear? Are you greeting customers? Post hours and adhere to them. Don’t leave early because it’s raining. Don’t change…
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